Marian Wynn was born in Kasota, Minnesota in 1926. She worked a series of odd jobs as a child, including herding cows and doing housework for neighbors, as well as working at a cannery in Winnebago, Minnesota in 1943. After graduating high school, Wynn took a job at Carney Rockwool Company in southern Minnesota to save up enough money to move to California to work with her father. In California, she got a job as a pipe welder at the Kaiser Shipyards and joined the Boilermakers Union. Following the postwar layoffs, Wynn began another cannery job before transferring to Heinz Cannery and then to Del Monte in Emeryville. She later worked for California Ink and then at Systron Donner until retirement. In this interview, Wynn speaks about her family background and growing up poor in Minnesota, the many jobs she worked as a child and an adult, moving to California and working at the Kaiser Shipyards, and her volunteer work with the National Park Service and with other Rosies. She also discusses some common myths about working during World War II.